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APHARI LIMITED

Aphari Transition Project Delivery Health Check

Aphari helps organisations transform their digital/technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery. Our transition project delivery health check provides validation of the approach taken to exit services from legacy suppliers and onboard new suppliers and cloud services.

Features

  • Validation of service exit/transition approach against integrated best practice framework.
  • Assessment of scope, approach, plan, technical/service aspects, organisation, risks.
  • Conducted by multi-disciplinary team, with extensive supply-side multi-sourced delivery experience.
  • Holistic view joining up commercial, technical, service and related functions.
  • Addresses specific concerns including incumbent/incoming supplier dependencies and risks.
  • Covers legacy contract exit and transition management aspects, where appropriate.
  • Assessment approach based on pragmatic application of public-domain best practices.
  • Our framework includes MOP, MSP/PRINCE, COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL, CCS guidance.
  • ‘Big IT’ experience yet independent of suppliers and large consultancies.
  • Can combine with other Aphari services including Set-up, Accelerators etc.

Benefits

  • Can combine with other Aphari services including Set-up, Accelerators etc.
  • Provides stakeholders with an independent, experienced, delivery-focused point of view.
  • Enables the client to confirm strengths and address any weaknesses.
  • Identifies key risks and issues based on 'real world' experience.
  • Highlights cross-functional inter relationships, concerns and opportunities for improvements.
  • Highlights specific delivery risks arising from multi-vendor/cloud service transition.
  • Recommends techniques and approaches for mitigating delivery and service risks.
  • Aphari's assessment approach avoids lock-in to proprietary or 'branded' methodologies.
  • Our experienced team speaks to stakeholders in their own language.
  • Aphari provide techniques and knowledge to enhance client's architecture capability.

Pricing

£350 to £1,650 a unit a day

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

3 6 1 8 1 3 2 4 4 9 9 5 6 2 4

Contact

APHARI LIMITED Andrew Woodward
Telephone: 07969482868
Email: enquiries@aphari.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
This service provides validation of an individual transformation/cloud migration project status against our integrated best practice framework throughout its lifecycle – from initiation through to delivery of desired outputs and contribution to the wider programme outcomes.

This service is designed to help client organisations successfully deliver transformation/cloud migration programmes by assessing the fitness and quality of their constituent projects at every stage of their lifecycle.

This service can be used at the planning stages of a transformation/cloud migration programme, to validate the project is adequately defined and initiated. We can review the quality and implementation of project governance in line with programme standards. We can provide an end-to-end, independent assessment across areas such as risk, issues, dependencies, and scope deficiencies which could all negatively impact the project and consequentially the programme’s ability to realise the benefits and objectives in its business case.

As with our programme health check, the purpose of this service is to provide confidence that the programme business case remains viable and that it is not jeopardised by any of its constituent projects.
Planning service works with specific services
No

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
This service provides validation of an individual transformation/cloud migration project status against our integrated best practice framework throughout its lifecycle – from initiation through to delivery of desired outputs and contribution to the wider programme outcomes.

This service is designed to help client organisations successfully deliver transformation/cloud migration programmes by assessing the fitness and quality of their constituent projects at every stage of their lifecycle.

This service can be used at the sourcing and delivery stages of a transformation/cloud migration programme, to validate a discrete migration project is on track to deliver it's outputs. We can review the quality and implementation of project governance in line with programme standards. We can provide an end-to-end, independent assessment across areas such as risk, issues, dependencies, and scope deficiencies which could all negatively impact the project and consequentially the programme’s ability to realise the benefits and objectives in its business case. We can also focus on areas of known risk, such as managing multiple suppliers and dependencies in a project environment, and highlight mitigating activities that could improve the overall project status.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
Yes
How the quality assurance and performance testing works
This service is designed to help clients transform their digital and technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery.

A robust test function and test/QA processes are critical success factors for such programmes. Our health check service can include assessment of the test and acceptance strategy planned in for the programme; and identify key areas of risk for each constituent project (such as timely provision of environments, availability of test artefacts, and business engagement with, and acceptance of test phases).

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
None

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
We aim to respond to all queries regarding our services within 1 business day.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Our support and account management arrangements for all our services includes the following: establishment of clear and agreed reporting lines; pairing our engagement lead with the appropriate client stakeholder; formal and regular reporting of our services provided. All our services are subject to a standard set of internal and customer-facing quality checks. Our directors take an active role in assurance and delivery of our services which ensures that we understand how we are performing against your requirements; and provides an escalation route in case any issues are encountered with our service provision.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. By adopting cloud services, our clients will typically be enabling energy-hungry and under-utilised legacy systems to be decommissioned, and so reduce the need for associated on-premise cooling systems. The transition to cloud services typically moves computing workloads to more efficient, higher utilised systems, hosted in modern facilities with reduced cooling requirements. Delivery of cloud migration programmes therefore delivers significant overall reduction in energy consumption. Our services help clients to deliver these benefits more quickly and with more certainty.
In addition, subject to client preferences, the majority of our services can be delivered remotely, significantly reducing the need for our team to travel to our client's premises, and the associated carbon footprint.

Covid-19 recovery

Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. In adopting cloud services, and moving applications and data from on-premise legacy systems to cloud-hosted solutions, our clients will typically be enabling these to be 'accessed from anywhere on any device'. By helping our clients to deliver such changes in a more timely and reliable fashion, we are enabling them to better support a wider variety of working styles including flexible working and remote working. These in turn have been shown to provide significant benefits to staff who are responding to the impact of the Covid pandemic on themselves and their teams.
Our own team is fully enabled to work flexibly and remotely, and a number of our consultants work part-time. We have the ability to flex workloads between our consultants as needed to adapt to the different constraints that have arisen during the pandemic. This is coupled with a strong ethos of collaborative working, which helps us support each other and our clients. Through our first-hand experiences of flexible working, we are able to provide real-world advice and guidance to clients who are making changes to their ways of working.

Tackling economic inequality

Our services support innovation and adoption of new technologies, improved productivity, and better supply-chain relationships. As an independent consultancy, we have no ties to particular vendors or service providers. This means we are able to assess new service providers, new services and new technologies objectively and provide candid advise on the benefits and risks of their adoption. Furthermore, in bringing our 'supply-side' delivery expertise to our clients, and helping them to more clearly define their programme objectives, requirements, 'to-be' architectures and delivery management processes, we typically help to establish improved communications and relationships throughout the supply-chain.

Equal opportunity

Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. As part of our ethos, we take special care to ensure that end-users are not unfairly disadvantaged by the changes in technology which we help to deliver. As part of this we can provide support and guidance to our clients on ways to manage the impact of the programme upon the workforce, and to take into consideration those with particular needs. This may often include assistance with meeting occupational health requirements, management of technical issues related to maintaining or adding support for specialist end-user IT equipment, assistance and advice regarding individual training/skills enhancement needs, and support for wide scale training needs analysis. In all such matters, our service are provided in full support of the client's diversity and equality policies.

Wellbeing

Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. However, we understand that technology change programmes have a human aspect. An ill-defined, over-ambitious, or poorly-executed change programme can cause significant wellbeing issues, often arising from conflict and stress - both within and between teams. We believe that clear definition of programme objectives, requirements, solutions and delivery plan, coupled with senior stakeholder support, effective governance, and open communications, all help to orientate the project teams and supply-chain towards common and achievable goals. In turn, this fosters collaborative and supportive working relationships; which help the project teams and end-user community through the change lifecycle.

Pricing

Price
£350 to £1,650 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at enquiries@aphari.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.